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Wright Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$266k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$358kHealth$58kCivil Rights$50kYouth Development$38kFood & Nutrition$30kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUALITY EFFECT GRANT A$50,000
UPPER CANADA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$36,412
SANTA CLARA COLLEGE$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$25,000
HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
ROADSIDE COCONUTS INC$20,000
ULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
WILCOX HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY$7,500
KUMU'S CUPBOARD$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TICKET TO DREAM: $13k → 6%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $88k → 8%ROADSIDE COCONUTS INC: $20k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $500 → 13%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 → 22%NORTHWEST HOPE AND HEALING: $3k → 9%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $78k → 8%ROADSIDE COCONUTS INC: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%EQUALITY EFFECT GRANT A: $50k → 9%SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $35k → 8%WILCOX HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%ST CLEMENTS SCHOOL: $1k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $8k → 9%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%KUMU'S CUPBOARD: $5k → 9%KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%WILCOX HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE FRESH AIR FUND: $500 → 17%KUMUS CUPBOARD: $5k → 9%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%KUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $5k → 9%ULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$376k · 6 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$376k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+41%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $241k · revenue +34%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +59%
  • RC
    ROADSIDE COCONUTS INCORPORATED
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k

Funded once

  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • KC
    KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • KI
    KUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELIgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +52%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…

Health
2
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
3
Hawaii Pacific University

Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…

Education
4
Kuakini Foundation

The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…

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5
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
6
Keiki O Ka 'Aina Preschool Inc

The mission of keiki o ka 'aina family learning centers (koka-flc) is to build strong communities by building strong families through communicating the vital importance of education, advocating for literacy, supporting parents as their…

Education
7
Kukio Hoomana Fund

The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…

Philanthropy
8
The Kohala Center

The kohala center is an independent community-based center for research, conservation, and education.

Environment
9
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
10
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
11
Hawaii LOCAL2030 Hub

We are a public-private partnership that connects, convenes and catalyzes action across social, environmental and economic sectors to achieve hawaiis 2030 sustainability goals and the global sustainable development goals (sdgs).

Community Improvement
12
Kulaniakea

Advancing indigenous education by providing multi-generational dual- language (hawaiian and english) culture-based education programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Roadside Coconuts Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $241,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONThe George Washington University: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationEQUALITY EFFECT GRANT A: $50,000 · OtherEQUALITY EFFECT GRANT AUPPER CANADA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $36,412 · OtherUPPER CANADA EDUCATIONAL FOU…Wilcox Health Foundation: $15,000 · OtherWilcox Health FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAIIKAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $7,100 · OtherROADSIDE COCONUTS INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · HealthHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$316,000Other$146,012Arts & Culture$35,000Health$30,000Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$20,000Recreation & Sports$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $241,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilcox Health Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKUMU'S CUPBOARD: $10,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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